Spiritual Nourishment
Just as our physical body requires material nutrients for its life, our spiritual body requires spiritual nutrients for its life. And, just as our physical body weakens or deforms when it lacks necessary nutrients, our spiritual body follows in the same way when we cultivate evil instead of goodness and falsity instead of truth.
Can human violence be stopped?
There is nothing normal about what is happening in America with guns in civilian hands. How long can we pretend that it’s okay to live like this?
The Rules of Freedom
What is important about the commandments may not be that they are divine mandates to the Israelites, but that the divine message to humanity is that living as free people requires keeping certain rules.
Further from the Mundane, Closer to God
When we read the Gospels, we find that Jesus is intentionally breaking the strict notion and tradition of Sabbath. This gives us a reason to look for a deeper meaning of Sabbath, and what it means to keep it holy.
In Agreement with God
The covenant with God only becomes real when we consent to what God suggests to us. And what does God suggest? Only two things: to love God, and to love each other.